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Fascinating. I have nothing really useful to add, just want to say Kudos to you sir for carrying out an experiment after such a long time gap. It is fantastic to see an actual empirical test.

I think i'm still using NAM 33

Nice, thanks for sharing. ~cheers

@Haljackey My word has it been 7 years since i posted that map?! Jeez where does the time go. Your region is looking fantastic. I see signs of a highway in the mountains; you get a chance to run any transit lines through mountain passes up there? It almost shames me to say my region is pretty barren. I haven't really fired up the game since NAM ....32? came out (for hobbies i've taken up landscape photography, and since covid: painting ). I've got a farm grid in the northwest sector to bootstrap the industrial jobs demand for the region, but other than that and foresting up the same area i haven't done much. I'm going to have to fire it up soon.

Interesting. Here on Mt Rainier i've seen rescue groups on the Nisqually glacier and they're orange-clad like that for the visibility, so that was my first thought. I guess it makes sense for everyone to wear high-vis in a dangerous white environment.

That Tasman River pick is just exquisite. Love the rescuers crossing the crevasse filled glacier, too. ~Cheers.

Yes, Yes, I believe yes, but am not sure where it is bundled. Best bet is CDK3. ~Cheers

No he was not refering (sic) to that. I was 100% referring to that. Both to reinforce the point Matt made (which i quoted his summation of), and because in the immediately preceding post, you said: And just above it:

This is a perfect example Matt. I agree 100% with Matt. Released BAT models are individual pieces of art. They might be great art, or they might not even be decent art, but they're someone's art, and that someone would not have released it unless he cared about it. Re-releasing a tweaked model without explicit permission is massively disrespectful and should never be ok. Relotting is taking someone else's individual pieces of art and incorporating them into a larger canvas. Using someone else's original model shows respect for the quality of their work. You could think of relotting as putting a different frame around someone's piece of art. For instance, updating a good model with ground/parking textures and surrounding it with flora prop models that didn't exist when the building was released. (The following is not going to sound nice, but i can't think of a way to make it sound nice, sorry. This is a statement, not an attack) Honestly, if someone has a vision of something they want in their city, but can't find a model (building or prop) that meets their needs or is "good enough," the solution is not to go tweaking someone else's model, no matter how small the adjustment might seem. The solution is to learn to BAT and build their own. Every single BATer and content creator started out this way; seeing a need or desiring something specific, seeing nothing existing in the community to fill it, so they stood up and made it themselves. Artistic integrity is about showing respect for the work of others. If someone doesn't understand that simple fact, they don't have that respect. As a creator, i wouldn't want my work to be in the hands of such a person. Just because other people have shown such disrespect in the past doesn't mean it should ever become OK. No. This (disrespectfully) makes their work all about your vision, and it most certainly is not. If their work is good enough to be used by you in your own vision, then use it. If it's not, and you can't find something that is, it is time to make your own. ______ This is a simple yet elegant solution. List some kind of GNU like license in the rules section for allowing reworking, and if an author chooses they can opt in by placing a tag in the webpage for the file: "this file released under Simtrop (GNU/commons) license yadda yadda"

/Stumbles in. Hi All, i still pop in every 3 weeks or so, so if i'm tagged i will see questions. As @Jasoncw says it might be a bad export. In my experience the LOD for seawalls are a royal PIA, both for how the terrain pokes through and for how the seawall pieces will line up with each other. I don't really have any good advise about it, sorry; i took the easy way out by making the tile plop on the slope, and building the wall way out from the top edge of the slope by putting a walkway before the wall drops down. It is entirely a trial-and-error process to get it good enough.

Q'PLAH! To the coming of spring! To the end of the season of cold. To the start of the season warm as a beating warriors heart. To the quest for honor and glory! But first, more blood wine while i sharpen my bat'leth...

Sorry, i couldn't resist. The idea of having small (or not so small), introductory packages of custom content, repackaged and maybe even "remastered" is an excellent idea. I agree that for the health of the game and the community moving forward, this needs to happen in some capacity.

Test: Or just copy over the BBCode text and hack the URL part of it off the front and back. Jeez im rusty at this interwebs community sharing thing. Thank you, sir.